This simple, black-and-white staple-bound book contains approximately 48 pages of Kostelantez’s visual poetry as well as a short essay by the artist and several quotes (Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Pound, etc.) relating to poetry and visual poetry.
“One ideal implicit in my own visual poetry is economy of both language and line. A second is the rejection of shapes other than those forming the letters. A third is the realization of images that stick in the reader’s mind. A fourth is a direct communication of surface meanings, which can be observed, rather than hidden meanings, which must be deduced. One distinction to be made among my works it that some incorporate their titles, while others have a headline…
"These poems originate not with the ego (or the id) but with words and a desire to visualize those elements. They exhibit not personality but personal style.” –from the artist’s essay.